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Seminars included on this schedule are in these three series: |
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| Spring Semester 2006 | Michigan State University | ||
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Seminars begin at 11:30 a.m. Refreshments served at 11:15 a.m.
Seminars are in |
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| Friday, 27 January | Engineering Seminar | ||
| Paul Laibinis , Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Vanderbilt Univ. | |||
| DNA Directed Assembly | |||
| Friday, 03 February | Interdisciplinary Physics Seminar | ||
| Christopher Schuh , Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, MIT | |||
| Percolation and Scaling in Grain Boundary Engineering | |||
| Friday, 10 February | Quantitative Biology and Modeling Seminar | ||
| Charles Brooks , Dept. of Molecular Biology, Scripps Research Institute | |||
| The Role of Membrane Environment and pH on the Insertion, Folding and Assembly of Peptides and Proteins | |||
| Friday, 17 February | Quantitative Biology and Modeling Seminar | ||
| Mark Tuckerman , Depts. of Chemistry and Mathematics, New York Univ. | |||
| Hydronium and Hydroxide Transport in Liquid Water Predicted from Density Functional Theory Based Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics | |||
| Friday, 24 February | Interdisciplinary Physics Seminar | ||
| Valeriy Ginzburg , Physical Science Group, Dow Chemical Co., Midland | |||
| Theory and Modeling of Polymer-inorganic Nanocomposites | |||
| Friday, 03 March | Engineering Seminar | ||
| Abraham Lenhoff , Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Univ. of Delaware | |||
| Protein Transport in Porous Chromatographic Adsorbents | |||
| Friday, 17 March | Quantitative Biology and Modeling Seminar | ||
| Una-May O'Reilly , Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab, MIT | |||
| Fitness Landscapes of Analog Controllers | |||
| Friday, 24 March | Interdisciplinary Physics Seminar | ||
| Zoltan Oltvai , School of Medicine, Univ. of Pittsburgh | |||
| Flux States and Functional Organization of Cellular Networks | |||
| Friday, 31 March | Engineering Seminar | ||
| Curt Frank , Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Stanford Univ. | |||
| Interpenetrating Network Hydrogels for Development of an Artificial Cornea | |||
| Friday, 07 April | Quantitative Biology and Modeling Seminar | ||
| Julie Mitchell , Biochem. & Mathematics, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison | |||
| Mathematical Approaches to Protein Re-Design | |||
| Friday, 14 April | Interdisciplinary Physics Seminar | ||
| Miguel Llinas , Dept. of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon Univ. | |||
| Is it NMR or is it Crystallography: Solving Protein Structures via the CLOUDS Approach | |||
| Friday, 21 April | Engineering Seminar | ||
| David Schaffer , Dept. of Chem. Engineering, Univ. of California, Berkeley | |||
| Molecular Engineering of Stem Cells and Viruses for Therapeutic Application | |||
| Friday, 28 April | Quantitative Biology and Modeling Seminar | ||
| Michael Betenbaugh , Dept. of Chem. & Biomolec. Eng., Johns Hopkins Univ. | |||
| Quantitative Analysis of Glycosylation Processing | |||
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Seminar Organizers: |
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Engineering Seminars: | |||
| Michael E. Mackay, Chemical Engineering & Material Science | mackay@msu.edu | ||
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Quantitative Biology and Modeling Seminars: | |||
| Michael Feig, Quantitative Biology and Modeling Initiative | feig@msu.edu | ||
| Marianne Huebner, Quantitative Biology and Modeling Initiative | huebner@msu.edu | ||
| Charles Ofria, Quantitative Biology and Modeling Initiative | ofria@cse.msu.edu | ||
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Interdisciplinary Physics Seminars: | |||
| Phillip M. Duxbury, Physics & Astronomy | duxbury@pa.msu.edu | ||
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Further information on some seminars may be found at:
Prior semesters:
Fall 2005;
Spring 2005;
Fall 2004;
Spring 2004;
Fall 2003; |
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